Chem Ed Seminar “It’s the items that make the assessment: Investigating test and item properties for better measurement” Dr. Kristen Murphy, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee 4:10-5:10PM Scott Lab N054

Today’s Biochemistry Seminar “Chemistry in the Code: Revealing RNA Modifications by Mass Spectrometry” Dr. Patrick Limbach
 4:10 — 5:10PM Psychology 006

Today’s Organic Seminar “Building Efficient Diastereo- and Enantioselective Synthetic Routes to trans-Cyclopropyl Esters for Rapid Lead Scale-Up” Dr. Richard Loach, Pfizer And “Synthetic Chemistry Careers at Pfizer” Dr. Alistair Richardson, Pfizer 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Chem Ed Seminar “Professional Cultures and Inequality in STEM” Dr. Erin Cech,  University of Michigan 4:10 — 5:10PM Scott Lab N054

Today’s Analytical Seminar “One Molecule at a Time:  Nanopore Tools for the Genomic and Proteomic Era” Dr. Min Chen, University of Massachusetts Amherst 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Biochemistry Seminar “Structure and inhibition of bacterial ribonuclease P enzymes” Dr. Michael Harris - University of Florida
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Today’s Chisholm Workshop “Integrated CO2 Capture and Electrochemical Conversion” Dr. Jenny Y Yang, UCI 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Physical Seminar “Exploring Excited State Dynamics and Spectroscopy Using Quantum Chemistry” Dr. Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Paquette Workshop Technical Talk “A Click Chemistry approach to N-Heterocycles” Dr. André K. Isaacs, College of the Holy Cross 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Russ Pitzer Lecture “Computational simulations of strong field ionization using time-dependent configuration interaction with a complex absorbing potential (TDCI-CAP)” Dr. H. Bernhard Schlegel, Wayne State University 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Inorganic Seminar “Cartography with Clusters: Mapping Surface Science Mechanisms with Atomic Precision” Dr. Josh Buss, University of Michigan 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Chem Ed Seminar “Reimagining chemistry education: Insights from research to practice” Dr. Vincente Talanquer, University of Arizona 4:10 — 5:10PM Scott Lab N054

Jacob Schwartz received an outstanding poster award at the Rustbelt RNA Meeting 2025🎉 Congrats👏👏👏

Today’s Biochemistry Seminar “Synthetic Molecular Evolution of Membrane of Nanopore-forming Peptides” Dr. Bill Wimley, Tulane University 4:10 — 5:10PM Psychology 006

Today’s Chem Ed Seminar “Chemistry On Screen: What are students seeing on YouTube vs. what do we want them to find?” Dr. Debbie Herrington, Grand Valley State University 4:10 — 5:10PM Scott Lab N054

Today’s Physical Student Seminar “Developing a Framework for Predicting Spectroscopic Signatures of Defects in Metal Oxide Semiconductors” Lily Nichols-Dolin, OSU 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Organic Seminar “Applications of Acetal Radicals in Organic Synthesis” Prof. Daniel K. Kim, Temple University 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Biochemistry Seminar “Translocon dynamics during protein synthesis at the ER” Dr. Robert Keenan, University of Chicago 4:10 — 5:10PM Psychology 006

Today’s Organic Student Seminar “Silver Coated Microcapillaries Generate Soft Plasma-Microdroplets for Enhanced MS Detection and Synthesis” Adam Reed, OSU (Badu Group) 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Chem Ed Seminar “Chemistry for Whom and for What Purpose?” Dr. Ryan Stowe, University of Wisconsin-Madison 4:10 — 5:10PM Scott Lab N054

Today’s Physical Seminar “Fast Electrons and Hard X-rays for Unraveling Atomic-Scale Dynamics in Light-Energy Conversion” Dr. Renske van der Veen, Helmholtz Berlin 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Kotaro received the 2025 Innovators in Healthcare and Life Sciences Award from Business First!

Biochemistry Seminar “Mechanistic insights into the aminoglycoside nucleotidyltransferase(6) enzyme family” Dr. Brian Smith, Grand Valley State University 4:10 — 5:10PM Psychology 006

Today’s Sheldon Shore Lecture “New Perspectives on the Chemistry of the Rare Earths: Structures, Bonding, and Reactivity” Dr. Eric Schelter, University of Pennsylvania 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Chem Ed Seminar “A Tale of Two Paradigms: The Importance of Empricial and Design Work in Chemistry Education” Dr. Sam Pazicni, University of Wisconsin-Madison  4:10 — 5:10PM Scott Lab N054

Today’s Physical Seminar “Photochemistry in molecular crystals: from dynamics to mechanics” Dr. Chris Bardeen, UC Riverside 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

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Today’s Biochemistry Seminar “Machine learning for protein engineering: successes and failures, and how to tell the difference” Dr. Andrew Ellington, University of Texas, Austin 4:10 — 5:10PM Psychology 006

Next week.

Today’s MLS Seminar Dr. Phil Zamore, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 4:10 — 5:05PM DHLRI 170

Today’s Chem Ed Seminar “Understanding Student Perceptions, Perceived Competence, and Sense of Belonging in General Chemistry Courses” Dr. Nicole Karn, The Ohio State University  4:10 — 5:10PM Scott Lab N054

Today’s Inorganic Seminar🗓️ “High Voltage, No Metal: Design Sustainable Cathodes for Li & Zn Batteries” Dr. Shiyu Zhang, OSU 4:10 — 5:10PM CBEC 130

Today’s Chem Ed Seminar🗓️ “Bridging the Academia-Industry Divide: Preparing Undergraduate Students for Roles in Chemical Industry” Dr. Molly Atkinson, University of North Texas  4:10 — 5:10PM Scott Lab N054

Today’s Physical Seminar🗓️ “Dynamics Simulations of Fluorescent Proteins for Rational Design” Dr. Alice Walker, Wayne State University  ⌚️4:10 — 5:10PM 📍CBEC 130

Today’s Biochemistry Seminar🗓️ “Cancer Drug Discovery Using Fragment-Based Methods and Structure-Based Design” Dr. Stephen Fesik, Vanderbilt University  ⌚️4:10 — 5:10PM  📍Psych 006

Today’s Organic Seminar🗓️ “Amphiphilic Dendritic Hybrid Block Copolymers (HBCS) for Theranostic Nanomedicine” Dr. Davita Watkins, OSU ⌚️4:10 — 5:10PM 📍CBEC 130

Today’s Chem Ed Seminar🗓️ “Aligning Teaching Values and Assessment Practices with Scalable Specifications Grading” Dr. Renee Link, University of California Irvine ⌚️4:10 — 5:10PM 📍Scott Lab N054

Today’s Organic Seminar🗓️ “Process Development of CDK2 Selective Inhibitor PF-07104091" Dr. Michael Herr, Pfizer  ⌚️4:10 — 5:10PM  📍CBEC 130

Today’s Biochemistry Seminar — Student Speaker🗓️ “Intracellular Delivery of Proteins and Nucleic Acids” Sara Reitz, OSU ⌚️4:10 — 5:10PM 📍Psych 006

Today’s Inorganic Seminar🗓️ “Manipulating Phase Transitions and Free Volume: From Solid Refrigerants to Microporous Water” Dr. Jarad Mason, Harvard University ⌚️4:10 — 5:10PM 📍CBEC 130

Claudia Turro was awarded the 2026 Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry!

Congrats, Davita!

Zac Schultz -- 2025 Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy

Cassie Miller was awarded an Engaged Graduate Student Research Seed Grant! Congrats, Cassie!

Biogen and City Therapeutics announce strategic research collaboration to develop select novel RNAi-based therapies. Congratulations to this #OhioStateStartup founded on technology developed by Kotaro Nakanishi

Congratulations Jaclyn Rebstock (Baker Group) and Katherine Gussenhoven (Bandara Group) on being the winners of the Autumn 2024 John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching! This award recognizes outstanding contributions by GTAs in our department each semester. Great work!

Ribbon cutting ceremony of National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center